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Use the tip of a spudger to pry the power board connector out of its socket on the motherboard.

Use your fingernail or the edge of a plastic opening tool to flip up the retaining flap on the following three ZIF sockets:

• Lower touchscreen cable
• Lower LCD cable
• Power board cable

Be sure you are prying up on the hinged retaining flaps, not the sockets themselves.

After flipping up the locking tabs on all three sockets, use your fingers or a pair of tweezers to gently pull the cables straight out of their sockets.

Use your fingernail or the edge of a plastic opening tool to carefully flip up the touchscreen ribbon cable retaining flap.

Make sure you are flipping up the retaining flap, not the socket itself.

Use the tip of a spudger to pull the touchscreen ribbon cable straight out of its socket.

Use your fingernail or the edge of a plastic opening tool to carefully flip up the dual camera ribbon cable retaining flap.

Make sure you are flipping up the retaining flap, not the socket itself.

Use the tip of a spudger to pull the dual camera ribbon cable straight out of its socket.

With the tip of a spudger, Pry the microphone antenna up off its socket on the motherboard.

Remove the following four Phillips screws securing the motherboard to the DSi framework.

• Three longer screws.
• One short screw.

Pull the microphone and Wi-Fi antenna cables out of the notch cut into the motherboard near the headphone jack.

Slightly lift the motherboard upwards to reveal the upper LCD ribbon cable above the ABXY buttons .

Use your fingernail or the edge of a plastic opening tool to carefully flip up the upper LCD ribbon cable retaining flap.

Make sure you are flipping up the retaining flap, not the socket itself.

Remove the motherboard from the DSi.